The company is currently making some changes to the site, which caused an outage in January.

The more suspicious amongst us also believe the site may be down as a result of hackers. One Twitter user, @dianalizia, wrote: "Twitter, facebook, gmail, yahoo have had problems in last few hours. coincidence or is something up, perhaps linked to lulzsec arrests?"

Another blamed the outage on Apple's announcements crashing the site which is a bit hard to swallow.

Anyway it was back up late in the morning, Roman time. We are still waiting on an explaination from Facebook as to what happened.